UK news media rarely diverged from the narratives offered by established political parties during the 2015 general election, write Martine Moore and Gordon Ramsay, both of King’s College London. They … Continued

UNESCO Research Conference on Safety of Journalists is calling for papers and posters from various research fields that examine freedom of expression and press freedom, and that cover the issues mentioned … Continued

Reuters Institute fellow Chan Jung Park explores in his new paper how regulatory bodies in United Kingdom and South Korea decide on fairness and impartiality issues. He explores the extent to which a … Continued

Studying the ways search engines rank and present news content is a complex task, writes Jacob Ørmen, of University of Copenhagen. Things such as web browsing history may influence which … Continued

The relationships between journalists and scientists are various, but explainable through Pierre Bourdieu’s field theory, writes Jannie Møller Hartley, of Roskilde University. The author interviewed both journalists and scientists, and … Continued

Female politicians appear disproportionately seldom in UK daily newspapers, and they are occasionally subject to sexist representations, write Deirdre O’Neilla, of University of Huddersfield, Heather Savigny, of Bournemouth University, and … Continued

A special issue of the journal Medijske studije has been published. It focuses on the media development in the post-communist Central and Eastern European countries over the past 25 years. … Continued

The plurality of viewpoints in news is important to its function, and the state of said plurality should be carefully investigated, argue Christian Baden, of Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and … Continued

The readerships of both regional and national newspapers have declined in Denmark over the recent years. Similarly the Danes have cut back on their time spent viewing television. At the … Continued

New article by Carina Jacobi, Wouter van Atteveldt and Kasper Welbers introduces a relatively recent tool for quantitative analysis, Latent Dirichlet Analysis. LDA is an unsupervised topic modelling technique that automatically creates … Continued

Huge amounts of digital content are produced every day. The constant information flow have set new challenges not only for journalism but also journalism scholars. How to describe and analyze the … Continued

The second edition to the third e-book in the European Audiovisual Observatory’s IRIS Themes series is published. The new edition contains summaries of over 240 judgments or Court decisions that are based … Continued

Danish Broadcasting Corporation, DR, has introduced a new workflow in an attempt to produce more news stories, faster and on different platforms. This article explores how the practice of journalism at DR … Continued

In their newly published study Corinna Lauerer, Thomas Hanitzsch and Folker Hanusch explore how journalists experience the lifestyle industries try to shape their daily work, and how these journalists deal with these influences. 89 … Continued

Swedish teenagers on the cusp of adulthood consider news found on social media as being less ‘real’ than news received via traditional media, writes Malin Sveningsson from the University of … Continued

A special issue of the journal Journalism: Theory, Practice & Criticism on the London bombings of 2005 is looking for submissions. The issue seeks to revisit the so called ‘7/7’ … Continued

Research into news sharing on social media is, among other things, too Twitter-centric, write Anna Sophie Kümpel, Veronika Karnowski and Till Keyling, all of Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. They … Continued

The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is launching an extensive research project on the media displays of the current migration crisis. The study will have a time … Continued

Internet and social media have changed how journalists’ traditional roles are perceived. Stephanie Grubenmann Miriam Meckel explore the interplay between journalists’ role perceptions, the core values of journalism, and ongoing change in the … Continued

The newly published report presents four possible scenarios for the future of Dutch journalism in 2025. The report have been commissioned by the Dutch Journalism Fund. The aim of the research … Continued

Danish quality newspapers grant more visibility and weight to economic developments than what relevant indicators would call for, write Arjen van Dalen, Erik Albæk, both of University of Southern Denmark, … Continued

The news media is a major source to the general public in matters of science and health. Still journalists and experts tend to differ in what they consider as newsworthy … Continued

The common public sphere, relevant to the European Union, is best described by a discursive public sphere theory, argues Stefanie Walter of University of Mannheim, Germany. Walter compared the pre-collected … Continued

Finnish journalism students would like to find employment in the magazine industry, finds a study conducted at the University of Tampere, Finland. According to the researcher, Jenni Mäenpää, nearly a … Continued

Massimiano Bucchi1 has stated how science communication has moved from mediated to more direct communication from the researcher to consumer. The responsibility held by science journalists has shifted towards the … Continued

A new book edited by Einar Thorsen, Daniel Jackson, Heather Savigny and Jenny Alexander takes a look at media, politics and power. The focus is on citizens at the margins: … Continued

In his paper Linus Andersson analyses television news stories which have been reporting on the problems with electronic waste. He presents a perspective on how  this lengthy and ongoing state of environmental … Continued

Conflict, Trauma and the Media Conference in Liverpool is inviting papers for an one-day conference on the theme of conflict, community and representation in the media. The event intends to explore … Continued

What are the new risks being faced by photojournalists? Will there even be professional photojournalists in the future? These and other important questions concerning photojournalism are presented in a new … Continued

A brand new publication the Journal of Alternative and Community Media is calling for papers. The journal is published by Griffith University ePress with support from the IAMCR Community Communication section and … Continued